On Thursday 13 October 2005 04:38 am, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hello! > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:32:41PM -0600, Bernd Ahlers wrote: > >[...] > > > >Log message: > >If we start a second firefox, don't show the profile chooser but open a > >new browser window instead. (The same for thunderbird and mozilla.) > > Does this also apply if the $DISPLAY setting for the second invocation > is different from the $DISPLAY the other instance is already running on?
The intent of this commit was to improve the normal use case. If someone takes the time to configure their user prefs for things like mailto links, it will work now. If it interfeers with your use case, you should be able to get the old behavior by starting the second invocation with the -profilemanager arg. > Then I might be affected by this, usually running firefox on the normal > X display :0, and sometimes wanting to run it on a secondary tightvnc > display (:20). > > In fact, I'd like to access the same profile and have some locking/ > communication between the instances done in that case, but I guess > hell might freeze over before that happens... > > Kind regards, > > Hannah.
